The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-13
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We are in receipt of the Fifth Biennial
Report of the Board Of Regents aud Fac
ulty of the State Normal School, the Pc
rusal of which wall be OF undoubted inter
est to Q great number OF our readers
From If we learn that the institution a.
a more prosperous condition than % VI
heretofore. This is saying much, when
it Is known fact that II has almost al
ways been In state of prosperity second
to no institution of the kind in the west.
The total enrolment for the school year
ending June, 1885, was sos; for the year
ending June, 1886, 724. and the attendance
for the current year will. from present in
dications, reach fully 800.
For the year ending June, 1886, sixty
one counties Of Kansas were represented,
and during the present term students from
sixteen additional counties have already
reported.
Vi the 1886 pupils mot including Kin
dergarten Primary OF intermediary as
sembled at deyotionsls on the morning Of
May Is, 1886, 150. or about As per cent,
reported having had experience - tesch-
ing; 326 were expecting to engage In
teaching, and 1874, or about 80 per cent ,
were paying their own expenses.
The graduating class of SO members
averaged 25 years Of age, with an average
tet ching experience Of 31z years eacn,
These facts will afford some idea of the
| character Of students in attendance, and
show 10 what extent the school iscarTying
out the idea tor which Il was intended.
As the report contains much that may
be of interest to our readers, we make the
following extracts from II:
A serious objection to attendance here
LofOre has been the fact that students
| from distant parts of the stA5e were put 70
80 great an expense for travelling charges
Students of the institution are nearly all
teachers or persons intending 70 teach
| and are for the most part not In the besI
of circumstances financially. This rem
dered the school practically unavailable
for those living in tine more remote coun-
4 ties. To obvIate this difficulty and place
| all portions OF the state on an equal foot
| ing, the board adopted the following rules
"All Normal students living outside oil
| q radius Of one hundred miles from EN-
poria may have necessary railroad fare
refunded by the president Of the faculty
| on presentation of Teceiptstot agents from
whom tickets are purchased.
"Above tare shall be counted for ore
round trip only per year, and the rule
shall apply only 20 those students paying
| incidental fee for the entire year.
students In attendance and paying in
cidental fee for one full term, will be en-
titled 70 have one-halt of said extra fare
| refunded.
"These rules shall apply only to those
students living within the limits OF the
state of Kansas
"All persons are thus,s far as travelling
expenses are concerned, brought within
one hundred miles of the school.
At the date of this report, 80 Kansas
pupils from outside q radius OF 100 miles
have entered the school for the first tern
of 1857, and have received the mileage
due them.
The members of the last four gradual.
ing classes are teaching in at least SO diff
ferent counties. Altogether, graduates o.
the school are now teaching in 45 differ
ent counties. Though the posIo flee sd.
dress Of twelve members Of the two CLASSES
OF 1885 and 1886 were reported EmpOrjs
at the time Of graduation, but two OF then
remain in Emporla TO teach-the remain.
ing ten being distributed in seven differ
ent counties. So far as known al the dat,
ofthe report, graduates and undergradu-
ates OF the school taught last year or are
now teaching in 68 different counties o
the state, and the whereabouts of many
others, probably similarly engaged, is no
known.
The following is the faculty as at pres,
ent constituted, and the salary paid t
each:
A X. Taylor, Phi. ID. president of the fac
ulty and professor OF mental. moral and
in wilkinson. methods, outlines, and
director IN training -. ~. -. / 20
T. II. Dlnsmore, Pm. D., physics anc chem
NJ. A. Bailey, ID. A. mathematics ....... $50
norman ). Kelly natural hist ry '........ l 20
Lillian u. Picken, drawing and bookkeep-
Viola V. Price. Pm. NJ. Language. ........ 81
Martha +. Spencer. elocutlcn and Iheto-
q. Moss. vocal music. piano and thoo-
su;an Z. CrichtOn, principal model inter
I.ediate -. ... .........-....... SO
cmilIe Huffman, principal model pri-
mary and kindergarten. .-......... 96
| Mary Berkey, librarian. Observation-Disclosures. IL
Total salaries of faculty ............. Ia 90
Salary OF JauitOr and assistants ........... ~
salary of once clerk Neutrality-suspicious.. ~
TOTAL salaries. ...---..................l5 ,25
The board uId not consider Instrument
al music properly u part OF normal tralh